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She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh, The difference to me!
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Many are our joysIn youth, but oh! what happiness to liveWhen every hour brings palpable accessOf knowledge, when all knowledge is delight,And sorrow is not there!
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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished
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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
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